Quotes About Work

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The person that works the hardest wins.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

Speak little, do much.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.